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"From a desperately poor village in northeast China, to a career that took him across the world, this is the incredible story of Li Cunxin -- a story that almost vanished, like so many other peasants' lives, amid revolution and chaos. At age eleven, Li was chosen by Madame Mao's cultural delegates to be taken from his rural home and brought to Beijing, where he would study ballet. In 1979, the young dancer arrived in Texas as part of a cultural exchange,...
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2022.
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xii, 199 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Jihyun Park is one of these rare survivors. Twice she left the land of the 'socialist miracle' to flee famine and dictatorship.By the age of 29 she had already witnessed a lifetime of suffering. Family members had died of starvation; her brother was beaten nearly to death by soldiers. Even smiling and laughing was discouraged.The first time she ran, she was forced abandon her father on his deathbed - crossing the border under a hail of bullets. In...
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2015.
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387 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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English
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A steadfast faith kept nurse Maggie Hunter going through the Great War. But her fiancé's death overseas shattered her trust in God and her heart. Now an injured man has washed up on the shores of her Nantucket home, and to save him, Maggie must put more than her skill and dedication on the line... Wartime tragedy cost German soldier Stefan Witte everything -- and converted him to the cause of peace. But to deliver vital information to American authorities,...
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2016.
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xvi, 304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
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English
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In 1997 the author, aged 17, escaped North Korea for China. Her mother's first words over the telephone to her lost daughter were "don't come back". The reprisals for all of them would have been lethal. Twelve years later she returned to the North Korean border in a daring mission to spirit her mother and brother to South Korea in a very costly and dangerous journey. This eloquent book offers the first credible account of ordinary life in North Korea...
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[2008]
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39 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 30 cm
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English
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Offers the story of a young boy born to poor peasants in rural China who got a rare opportunity to study the art of dance and, through his talent and determination, became the first to represent his country in a cultural exchange abroad.
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Apollo murders volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
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354 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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In 1973 Israel, as the Yom Kippur War erupts and a state-of-the-art Soviet MiG fighter makes an unexpected landing, NASA Flight Controller and former U.S. test pilot Kaz Zemeckis is drawn into a high-stakes game of spies, lies and secrets that hold the key to Cold War air and space supremacy.
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Charlie Muffin spy stories volume 13
Pub. Date
2002.
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336 pages ; 22 cm
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English
30) Fatal ally
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English
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Your staunchest ally can be your deadliest enemy: a riveting spy thriller. After five years’ silence, a British intelligence asset has made contact from Moscow. Claiming to be in possession of an explosive piece of information, he wishes to defect to the West. The carefully-planned operation however goes catastrophically wrong, the would-be defector ruthlessly betrayed by a rogue element at the highest level of US government. As a result, MI6’s...
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[2010]
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1 videodisc (74 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"This film reveals the extraordinary stories, told by survivors of North Korea's vast prison camps, of deadly famine, and of every kind of repression. Their experiences are interspersed with archival footage of North Korean propaganda films and original scenes that illuminate the contours of daily life for a people whose every action is monitored, and whose every thought could bring official retribution." -- Container.
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2001.
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1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Circus saxophonist Vladimir Ivanoff suddenly defects from his touring troupe in that temple of "Western decadence" -- Bloomingdale's. Fleeing the K.G.B., Vladimir wins asylum and moves into the crowded Harlem flat of Black security guard Lionel Witherspoon. Though Vladimir learns that life in America can be cold and even painful, he grows to love this strange and wondrous new land.
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[2021]
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xvi, 398 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
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English
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"The thrilling never-before-told story of Agent Sniper, one of the Cold War's most effective counter-agents Michal Goleniewski, cover name Sniper, was one of the most important spies of the early Cold War. For two and a half years at the end of the 1950s, as a Lt. Colonel at the top of Poland's espionage service, he smuggled more than 5,000 top-secret Soviet bloc intelligence and military documents, as well as 160 rolls of microfilm, out from behind...
35) The turning
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2006.
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213 pages ; 19 cm
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English
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In the months leading up to the August 1991 coup attempt that resulted in the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union, a young dancer with the Kirov Ballet struggles to decide whether to defect while on an upcoming trip to Paris.
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[2010]
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9 videodiscs (232 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Big chill : The growing pains of seven college housemates from the 1960s who have drifted apart and then reunite at the funeral of a friend. Harold has "grown up" to be a running-shoe magnate; Michael, a gossip magazine journalist; Sam, TV's hottest private eye; Nick, a drug dealer; Sarah is a doctor; Meg, a lawyer; and Karen, a wife and mother in the suburbs. Stunned by the death of their peer, sensing their own mortality and the loss of their innocence,...
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